Recent content by Alembic14

The store I work at carries Pura Nitratelock, although I haven't tried it. http://www.magnavore.com/media.html I have tried the "magic potion" M3's AZ-NO3 and it really does work. http://archimedes.galilei.com/raiar/azpamp.html

When you look towards the background of your tank, you should be able to say "There is none more black".

After I clean my skimmer's collection cup I put in 10-12 'beads' (for lack of the proper term) of Calcium Chloride. Doing this buffers the skimmate in the cup so it won't smell as badly. I read this in an article in Coral magazine awhile back and it actually works.

I've installed several 5000 shorty skimmers for clients- what I like about them is that you can feed them from an overflow box drain, effectively skimming anything on the surface of the tankwater. Stan

You might want to check and see if that Asterina star is using that coral like a drive in restaurant. Maybe it's a Coeloseris sp., but that's just a guess.

Thanks, Thales. To quote Dean Martin: "It's good to be here. It's good to be anywhere."

Greetings Righty, Long time lurker, new poster here. Is the bubble column the 'tornado in a tube' that a Seaclone normally produces? If so, you might be better off with an airpump and a limewood airstone for better contact time in the reaction chamber. It might be significantly more efficient...

Wayne, I closed my store almost three years ago, so I'm in the clear. But in the time I had the store, I dealt mainly with local wholesalers. During that time I tried to avoid Phillipine fish, but it was not reasonably possible to query the location of collection for every fish I ordered. Yes, I...